Eastside Culture Crawl - A Visual Arts, Design, & Crafts Festival

ANYUTA

Painting
Sculpture

Anyuta a classically trained sculptor and painter with Eastern European roots. She was born and raised in Soviet Russia on its Far-Eastern frontier, in the port city of Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, near Japan and China. She started classical art training at the age of 10, graduating from a Children’s Traditional Art School at the age of 14. Then, while studying linguistics at the local university, Anyuta spent three years doing extensive art residency programs with two large-scale Russian porcelain manufacturers, resulting in many of her sculptural designs being adapted for their mass production as sculptural souvenirs. In 2000, Anyuta relocated to Moscow to study professional sculpture at the Moscow Stroganov Art Academy. She graduated the Academy in 2006 with an MFA-equivalent diploma in monumental and decorative art with a Major in Sculpture. She immigrated to Canada in 2008. Since then, Anyuta has been participating in numerous national and international solo and group art shows and competitions. In 2017, she won a design challenge contest and created a porcelain statuette for the Canadian Legend Award which was granted to David Foster by the College of Performing Arts. She was a finalist of multiple international art competitions including the 2^nd International Ceramic Art Competition in Roseville, CA, the 22^nd National Ceramic Competition by the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, and the 5^th International Sculpture Competition by Musée Départemental Breton à Quimper in France. In 2013, she was a finalist of the Vancouver Ironclad Art manhole design challenge. Anyuta has participated in multiple art residencies including the Allerton Park Art Residency by the University of Illinois in 2024, a two-year residency with Pottery Northwest Ceramic Arts Centre in Seattle from 2018 to 2019, and two art residencies with St. George School in Vancouver. She was a recipient of a Vancouver DTES artist grant, and a Wally Grant in Seattle. Anyuta is a member of Sculptors’ Society of BC. Her work was featured in multiple publications including Amilcar UK Magazine, The Vancouver Sun, Georgia Straight, The Vancouver Courier, The Westender, MonteCristo Magazine, The Province, Canadian Immigrant, and on the Global News.